Today's News

A host of summer sports camps for various age groups and activities are scheduled in the coming weeks.

• • •

The 2011 Don Woods Football Clinic will be held from Thursday, June 9, through Saturday, June 11, and will feature the camp’s namesake and 1975 NFL Rookie of the Year, an alumnus of New Mexico Highlands University.

Reies Lopez Tijerina, a prominent figure in the Chicano Movement and one of the people involved in the infamous 1967 Tierra Amarilla courthouse raid, will take part in several public events on Wednesday.

The Las Vegas City Schools district put out a help wanted sign nearly a month ago seeking applicants for all of its administrative positions, from associate superintendent on down to assistant principals.

The move, which stems from interim Superintendent Sheryl McNellis-Martinez’s decision to open up all administrative positions, has generated its share of criticism.

In 1911
Tuesday, June 6 — McGovern and Ryan, the sewer contractors, began work this morning in the alley just west of Charles Rosenthal’s store on Center street. Over fifty men were in the gang and they made the dirt fly when they were given the signal to dig. The contractors expect to do considerable work in the downtown section at the beginning, spreading into the resident portions from that as a central radius... Digging and the laying of pipe may be done in several parts of the sewer district simultaneously.